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Enslave Demon

Enslave Demon

5% of base mana	30 yd range

3 sec cast
Requires Warlock
Requires level 31

Enslaves the target demon, forcing it to do your bidding. While enslaved, the demon's haste is reduced by 30%. Lasts up to 5 min.

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Spell Details

Duration

5 minutes

School

Shadow

Mechanic

Charmed

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

5% of base mana

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

3 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Charm
Value: 32

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Decrease Attack Speed %
Value: -30%
Mechanic: Slowed

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Comment by Greytusks

Enslaved demon do not get benefits from your demonology talents except Improved enslaved demon. Nor does it benefit from scalability or give you boost via demonology talents.

Comment by dreampod

This is largely a skill for playing around with for entertainment value, rather than actually useful in the game. It is extremely unreliable and has a short duration.

Enslave a Infernal at the Manoroc Coven sometime, have fun playing with it, then take this back off your hotbar.

Comment by thewrs

Can the minions of enemy warlocks be enslaved?

Comment by akudji

can be used to solo allmost all elitequests in nagrand.

Comment by bennetta

Does anyone know the cooldown on the diminishing returns portion of this spell?

I used it today to enslave Silroth, the level 70 elite pit lord near Stormspire. It was a blast (especially when I saw the rogue who ganked me earlier farming nearby), but after a few rounds of diminishing returns, I let him die and waited for him to respawn. It must've been 30 minutes or so before I re-enslaved him and the spell broke almost immediately three times.

Is the diminishing returns for this on an insane timer or something? Anyone know how long exactly? Are named mobs effected in some weird way that others aren't?

Comment by Thanatos

The spell description says: "Up to level 62". It can be me interpretating this wrong but why then can you enslave demons like Silroth and the ones in the Nagrand forge camps (since the are >62)

Comment by Datsyk

Not so true when you are going for the Epic Warlock Mount....the infamous DreadStead. This spell is invaluble in the fight to get ur mount. By the time you are getting this you should have CoS unless you a retarded and this will lessen the demons ability to resist the spell.

also usefull in Outland, Hellfire Penisula where you can often use the demons there as your tank instead of the underpowered VW

Comment by DrunkWarlock

Ok guys be careful with this although it is a good spell but if you lose your pets action bar DO NOT /console reloadui as i somehow releases the demon and it then attacks you.

Good Hunting.

Comment by DrunkWarlock

Ok guys be careful with this although it is a good spell but if you lose your pets action bar DO NOT /console reloadui as i somehow releases the demon and it then attacks you.

Good Hunting.

Comment by ZeroForever

im sorry, but i just dont see the point to have this spell, could some one help me out

Comment by destroyer8126

It would be wise to use sense demons and so then you will see where they are and enslave them.

Comment by Hotfusion

Also very improtant in the High King Maulgar fight in Gruul's Lair. The warlock is needed to enslave the Fel Hound summoned by one of the adds and use it to help the tanks.

And can also be nice as a CC spell in a Mechanar run.

Comment by moenbase

Sometimes the enslaved monster just takes off, I learned this the hard way. Right after summoning Gurok the Usurper in Nagrand the elite fel guard just runs off, leaving me on my own to be killed by the big rock dude. :[
When I got my new one and the timer (which didnt showed correctly next to the pet avatar) went to zero I was ready to re-enslave it. Though the elite fel guard just got himself a yellow-ish healthbar, and wasn't targetable for enslavement. Invalid Target.
After a few seconds it just vanished.

Comment by Rafasax

I can use Slave Demons together with I would mount it to attack some mob/npc?

Comment by blah17

It was already mentioned that Enslave Demon does not work on enemy player's demons.

I would like to add that it does not appear to work on mob's demon minions as well, though I have only tested this on one type of mob so far, so It could be a special case, though I doubt it.

And it should be noted that each rank has a wider range of levels that can be enslaved,

Rank 1 - Up to 2 levels higher than the caster
Rank 2 - Up to 3 levels higher than the caster
Rank 3 - Up to 4 levels higher than the caster

Comment by Yarthort

What is that icon?

Comment by gespenzt

On the Isle of Quel'Danas, use Enslave Demon on an Abyssal Flamewalker, and put it on passive. Find a player of the opposite faction who is either afk or blocking an NPC and put the demon on Stay. The Abysmal Flamewalker has a passive ability that deals a small amount of fire damage every few seconds without flagging attack from the guards. I've disposed of some NPC blockers in this manner. Best of all, when they attack the demons they themselves get killed while the lock remains unharmed.

Comment by Yukazi

Enslaves the target demon, including Metamorphosis Warlocks, up to level 76, forcing it to do your bidding. While enslaved, the time between the demon's attacks is increased by 40% and its casting speed is slowed by 30%. Lasts up to 5 min. If you repeatedly enslave the same demon, it will become more difficult to control with each attempt.

Fixed until fixed. =3

EDIT:
Fixed.
They didn't let that go on too long.

Comment by Flew

Can anyone tell me the difference between this rank and rank3? It looks the same to me and I'm not sure what benefits this brings over the previous rank.

Both:
consume 27% base mana
have 30yd range
have a 3sec cast time
consume a shard
allow enslaving a demon up to 4 lvls above your own
have the same penalties to attack and casting speed
last up to 5 min

Comment by bagszi

Is enslave demon working in raid instances? For example, can you enslave a demon in Sunwell to fight with it against boss?

Comment by Yukazi

I can only assume that it is like all previous ranks and will actually allow you to enslave a demon that is 5 levels above yourself and the level 76 mentioned here is just a misprint.

Comment by SmokeyMcpott

In patch 3.1 it is no longer more difficult to control a demon if you repeatedly enslave the same demon.

This spell might actually be worth using now.

Comment by Krazycarn

I would like to say that you can no longer enslave a warlock in Metamorphosis form. The only time that you could enslave another warlock like that was during a beta build, but Blizzard patched that out pretty quickly if I remember correctly.

Comment by Draugen

Enslave demon does not work on another player warlock's minion.

Which leaves it pretty useless, as you won't see demons at most levels.

What it should do is enslave a demon permanently as your pet, like a hunter pet. Although that would bring you back to the last fact, that there aren't many demons :)

Comment by Kciroj

While TBC gave us plenty of demons to work with, I found nothing interesting to enslave in WotLK, ~~apart from the puppies in the Nexus~~.

Edit: Mage Slayers were changed to Beasts in order to allow them to be tamed by hunters.
Also, the same still applies now in Cataclysm: there's very little demons in instances. You can enslave Void Seekers in Halls of Origination (although some of their abilities should not be used as they harm your party or heal the enemy, they still hit hard).

Comment by Kaeltras

In Black Temple I enslave elite demons and set him to the trash mobs and bosses.
If you need clear away road in instance you can use this method. Some warlocks can create powerfull army of demons.

Comment by v3rgil

does spell penetretion helps the enslave last longer?

Comment by RedwoodElf

Note: it says "UP TO 5 minutes"...I have yet to have an enslaved doomguard stay enslaved for more than about 10 seconds. It works fine on lower level demons...usually.

Comment by Lanetolsun

There are certain demons which you can cast this spell but instead of controlling target demon, you will get an "Immune" message in return. This may due to balance issues or maybe something else.

Also there are demons , which you can cast the spell, get no immune message , but still cant enslave them. (I remember those as mostly quest mobs, elites, or the nerfed elites after some patch)

Either of these above situations, your existing pet will be unsummoned and you will use up a shard.

Even when we were at outland, even when our arch enemy was an army of demonic legions this spell lacked, now in an area which main enemy is undead, its sad to see such a great opportunity of fun , is wasted.

Comment by killmurlocs

I have a question if the mobs enslave breaks in a town will the guards start attacking it?

Comment by Salami

I have a question if the mobs enslave breaks in a town will the guards start attacking it?

I wish i could give you a simple "Yes" or "No" here, i can't but i'm going to say something related to the point.

Yes you used to be able to enslave kite a mob to a town or city, but often Warlocks would just let an Infernal or Doomguard loose in the chosen location, lots of fun.

This was back before blizz went all carebear on us and said we shouldn't play with mobs and put an end to kiting and summoning demons to kill lowbies.

So i'm pretty sure you can't do this, not like you would want to anyway, the &*!@ty demons wouldn't stand a chance in Xroads, let alone somewhere fun like a city.

I miss the old days.. but you'll always have a load of whiny 12 year olds in WoW who complain to blizz about anything and everything untill they get what they want.

Either that or blizz are being run by the above, at this point i really can't tell which..

Comment by zoso46n2

Okay, so there's nothing really worth enslaving in Northrend. However, this spell made The Battle for Undercity http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13267 more fun than it already is. As a 75 aff spec my VW didn't last very long with only 10K HP. I got the HP buff, but my pet did not. After it died, I didn't bother to summon a new one since it's not really necessary to survive this quest. And then the elite felguards started appearing. Needless to say, having a 75 elite felguard with 127K HP makes this spell worth having, even if for only a few minutes on one quest. ;D

http://s853.photobucket.com/albums/ab94/Toolbox46n2/?action=view&current=FelguardMarauder.jpg

Edit: Having trouble linking (Yes, I'm a noob.)

Comment by Xiffrudo

Interesting icon, I always knew rock n' roll had something to do with demons.

Comment by marcellowow

Does this work on other warlocks pets?

Comment by ShreddingHusky

Keep in mind that this won't work on your little brother.

Comment by matornot

I enslaved the rare Nagrand spawn Voidhunter Yar, then dueled a friend, who killed my enslaved demon and got the Medium Rare achievement, and he even dropped the boe belt and it let me roll on it.

Comment by alphomega

Anyone know if the talents: Mana Feed, Demonic Resilience, Demonic Knowledge, Demonic Tactics (aswell as the improved version), and Demonic Pact work with enslaved demons?

Comment by Kagg

another spell that has gone by the way side. it was great in vanilla wow. this would be great to allow us to enslave the demon classes that represent our summonable pets. give us a more custimized feel. besides class flavor, it has no use to be honest :(

Comment by Toldry

Here is a list of demons added in WotLK

Comment by jh443

I'm level 80, and my Rank 4 says up to level 84 demon. I just created this toon a month ago (what can I say, I have no life) so I have no idea what the text used to say before that.

Comment by killmurlocs

Well I tested and the guards do attack the demons my lock can't test it with a flyer cuz he is only lvl 46 and you can chain enslave a demon but you can't hearth him to a town. I did Lord Azrethoc to nigels point with enslave mount up and run to the town and when he almost got pwned by guards i re enslaved him and hearthed.

Comment by Gnobody

WARNING
as of 4.0.3 if you re-enslave a demon you dropped on a guard the demon will run back to the spawn point where you tamed him and the guard/guards will attack you!

Comment by si1808

I found if I mounted my horse with an enslaved demon in tow, then the timer ran down faster. This is probably to stop people pulling mobs to towns.

Comment by Keramono

Can elementals be controled using Enslave Demons?

Comment by Igniz

Just curious if anyone found an interesting way to use this spell. Good Cata demons to enslave.

Comment by bradolika

Can you enslave the demon in the Malacress fight in Zul Aman? That way, you can "MC" it and Malacress would kill it while you hit on him a bit!

Comment by DemoraX

for alliance (with fast fliers) you can tame the "Doomguard Destroyers" (big doomguards) in blasted lands and then fly back to SW (since they can fly)
it draws a nice crowd and has a fel firestorm :D

when the enslavement ends (you should get a good 2-4 mins) the doomguard will fly in a perfectly straight line back to where he came from, even going through buildings :P

Comment by Odinheim

Unfortunately, as of patch 5.0.5, you can no longer enslave demons from Outland, and hearth with them back to capital cities. You WILL lose your minions upon doing so. I will forever lament the loss of bringing pit lords to Silvermoon and Orgrimmar.

Comment by Kragith

Back in tbc this spell made all the elite quests soloable, just enslave an elite felguard from the demon camp then have much lols.

Comment by Daenaurir

By the way, it seems a lot of people seem to be confused about the symbolism in the icon for this ability. Yes, it IS a sign used in the Heavy Metal subculture (I should know, as I am part of it), but originally it was used long ago as a sign to protect against demons/the devil, which probably is more fitting, seeing how this ability enslaves one.

Comment by asherkobin

What are the requirements for this to work? I'm level 34 and when I use it on a level 30 Succubus Minion it says "Target can't be charmed". Banish works though.

Comment by AngryMongoose

From here:
To reduce dependence on Resilience, we needed to increase player survivability against other players, and we chose to do this by essentially doubling (post-squish) player health.

On its own, that increase in health would make players more survivable in the world at large, so we're also increasing creature damage and the effectiveness of healing spells to balance things out. The net result of these changes is that individual attacks will knock a smaller chunk off of a player's health pool in PvP, but your survivability in PvE remains unaffected.
Which would suggest the damage of enslaved demons is effectively getting buffed in WoD, all other things being equal.

Comment by Googer

Seems as though when you use this spell to attempt to bring an enslaved demon into a low level zone such as redridge, elwynn forest, etc, it despawns your demon.
Long live the days you could bring an imp from the southern gate of burning steppes into northshire and release it :(

Comment by mjdb51594

Just a warning of advice; If you use the Eye of Kilrogg with a demon under the effect of Enslave Demon, it will break the enslavement, and he will attack you without mercy. Or to put it shortly:

Using Eye of Kilrogg will break the Enslave Demon effect.

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